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Yep pretty much. At least I would avoid people invested in the system. What I would reccoment you do is try to find fellow travellers in the police community for practical advice. http://www.leap.cc/may be a good place to start.

Indeed there are a lot of places in this world where a good engineer is needed.

Let's be honest, yes I would steal a car albeit only under extreme or unusual circumstance. I however wouldn't think twice about copying a Car.

Rule 1 I agree with, there are a lot of gotcha's out there, having multiple eyes look over a build list is great to double check parts are compatible. I disagree on the case philosophy. A smaller case can dissipate a lot of heat if properly designed. And it takes up a lot less room. A well designed case like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163222(which I've used) can accomadate a large cpu heatsink, a full sized graphics cards, a few full sized hard drives and an optical drive (the essentials) while still costing less than a well-designed larger case. A smaller motherboard also saves you quite a bit. Seeing how motherboards tend to throw in everything but the kitchen sink (many have wireless integrated) you tend not need a lot of expansion slots. The downside of smaller (micro as compared to standard ATX) is that it limits future upgrade options (1 graphics card vs 2, 4 DIMM's v 8) and you can stuff only about 1/2 as many disk drives into it. Hard Drive: Yes SSD, but perhaps not all SSD's are equal. Right now at the consumer level I'm excited about M.2 drives that use NVMe rather than AHCI. The newly released Samsung Evo 950 bosts reads of 2500 Mb/s and writes of up to 1500Mb/s. (which is 3-5 times faster than you can get going through AHCI/ the SATA interface. The nut of it is only a few motherboards support booting off on M.2 right now. On the up side these are the chipsets that gamers rave about, and the motherboards have a dedicatied M.2 slot right on the motherboard. (Z97, Z170 or X99 chipsets) You can add m.2 expansion cards onto PCI 3.0 x4 headers, but you may have trouble booting. Anyways a good SSD will make a system feel much more responsive for the money vs anything else you go premium on. CPU: These can be upgraded, but it's not always a sure thing. Sometimes pin layouts change between generations and you Motherboard may or may not get a firmware update to support the new generation. A quad or hexa core Skylake or haswell-E is going to be the latest and greates option, but starting at 250 as well. But they will support DDR4 memory which is latest greatest as well. Mother Board: Ya this is the foundation of your build. Try to match it to your case. If your case supports 8 hard drives and your motherboard supports 4, that could be a problem. Memory is the easiest thing to upgrade. 8GB is plenty for most tasks, 16 in a 2x8 Package will give you a lot of headroom. Power Supply: The second most important part for longevity of the build. Not only is power rating important, getting a name brand that is certified 80+ efficient of better assures you of a good quality supply. Graphics: There's a sweet spot in the mid-upper range for price/performance. A good rule of thumb is to spend as much as you did on the CPU, and certainly not more than twice that. The best graphics card in the world is still limited in practical performance by how fast the CPU can send instructions and data. But this is just one philosophy to buy at the upper side of performance and upgrade 2-3 times over 4-5 years. If you make a graph on hardward with the X axis being money spent and the y axis being additional everyday performance per dollar spend, you'd be being stuff at the peak or just right of it. (Typically 1000-1300 dollar builds with 200-400 dollar upgrades) The thing about this graph though is left of the peak there are two phases, on the far right each additional dollar increases performance per dollar at an increasing rate. Then you hit and inflection point and each extra dollar still increases performance per dollar but at a decreasing rate. The other school of thought tries to pick at this inflection or just right of it. Typical builds here are 600-800 dollars with maybe a 100-200 dollar upgrade. These would have a practical life of 2-3 years as a decent gamer. Pick parts a few generations old, consumer rather than enthusiast parts. Your replacement a few years from now built with the same philosophy will be at least as good the peak performer would have been 2-3 years ago.

"it seems like it would just raise demand thus raising prices, thus raising cost of living, thus invalidating the whole system." The seen and unseen. You'd also cut out a huge swath of bureaucrats and their demand so it wouldn't cause across the board inflation. Another objection is that some people genuinely need more, as the severely disabled or seriously sick. I think it would empower a lot of people to leave the cash nexus, to live of the land or join a communal house. On the converse you could see a lot more small businesses started especially among the young where they just had to worry about no loosing money for the first few years instead of trying to feed themselves as well. So I definitely support it over the current system but still can't advocate for it since it would be tax-funded. :D

Even taking a more rationalistic view of time it holds as long as you looking down a narrow scope. Time can be though of as the "what" whereby a cause bring a potentiality into reality. The traditional arguments assert that if a valid description (essence) of God is accepted, the description itself is rationally compelling to accept the actual existence of God. Especially in regard to the first three of Aquinas proofs. God if a thing that possibly could exist, then does actually exist. There is here not passing of potential to actual and no place for time. But it also brings into question God's personality or rationality. When you or I make a decision in a since we change our mind, bring or create a new aspect of ourself to reality. If God is outside of time even in the rationalistic sense how did he move from a God that possibly could create this universe to the one who did. Or is he perpetually both or neither. I find some of the arguments for a first cause compelling, but I don't find it convincing me of this cause is a omniscient, benevolent, omnipotent, and personal in any solid sense of the words.

I've been working contruction 10+ hours for the last seven days in New Mexico 95-100 degF highs. Does that count?

Epistemology or the study of knowledge. What exactly does it mean to know. Science or more precisely natural science is oberving or testing something very carefully. Philisophy is thinking really hard about something. I think philosophy can find knowledge even though what science uncovers can more readily and obviosly be accecpted as convincing.

Hey Bush Man the cat is out of the bag already. Any encryption that can't protect child pornographers from international investigations can't protect your credit card information from the Russian cuber-mafias.

At the very least the poor would have more options and the level of aid needed should decrease. http://fee.org/freeman/scratching-by-how-government-creates-poverty-as-we-know-it

http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/doc/Bender.pdf It improves reflectivity by 100x and allowed ranging experiments during the lunar day. 1ms pulse vs. 10ns pulse.

I'm really skeptical about claims X software is secure, particularly when there is no qualified third-party code review and full source isn't availible. (How well are private keys protected, are random number souces random enough, is it implemented correctly...) First off the dissapearing messages is kind of hocus pocus. There are side channels in which a log can be made and presumes everyone is using an unaltered original client. If someone reverses a client or injects modified code into the client these guarantees go out the window. I'd particularly like to point out a trade-off made here. To allow asynchronous communication the app allegedly uses PKI infrastructure directly which is secure so long as the keys used are. And some sort of server is storing and forwarding messages. That server makes an easy point to tap and store encrypted messages to be tried against any future recovered keys. Ditto for compromising the path to/from that server. (How is that secured BTW?) My thought that for highly critical security you want the pki behind a decentralized blockchain so you don't even know who is reading what, (which really isn't practical on mobile devices) or a synchronous protocol that allows for perfect forward secrecy like OTR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment And that's all I have to say about this.

Where would of time come from then. If God was in time, then time would have to pre-exist God. Also as far as we can tell, time is an aspect of space-time. (A reletivistic model of the universe doesn't allow you to seperate them out) Something omnipotent couldn't exist in a temporal frame anymore than it could exist in a specific location. It being at point A could no longer affect things at point B.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-07-22/for-ceos-correlation-between-pay-and-stock-performance-is-pretty-random Notice the R square value of 0.01 which means there is practically no relation at that level. Yes you should pay your managers well but at a certain level increasing pay you don't really get anything provable in return. Management at high levels requires a certain sort of forecasting and predicting that everybody is pretty bad at. And I don't accept that management is a particularly risky position (unless it's comingled with ownership). Turnover is not extreme. If the company loses money, they don't lose money. Giving non-owner managers large upsides (tied to stock performance) without the downsides sets up short-term behaviors that create small gains but expose owners to large losses. http://www.forbes.com/sites/drucker/2013/03/26/pay-for-performance-is-a-sham/ http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=807021021065097088087079108024122107041027049084057009028001126104121023113008107011001021016037024036049108080075065069067031039060090021004107074085114012064068124067069018089126120007005007006024028115102103096091076098107121079099095013072084086017&EXT=pdf

First I don't think it will reduce overall competitiveness or profits of this company as overall wages paid are remaining stable (taking from management and his own salary), higher wages attracting the more experience and competent applicants into the future (Henry Ford radically increased his wages fairly early on for factory line workers and it let him keep the most skilled and dependable employees), and the fact CEO pay is not strongly linked with performance. Now there may be negative effect on employees how fail to realize the increased wage is anomalous and not necessarily something they can count on 20 years from now. But a smart planner can keep living as if they made a lower wage and invest excess into retirement planning. That way even in a few years they must take a lower rate the extra money keeps working for them.

Etherium of something like it has strong possibilities for the future. It actually provides a resilient mechanism for decentralized organization of economic activity. MaidSafe is a similar project to check out. The $50 Billion dollar evaluation is for Uber, a different thing from Etherium altogether.

This is absurd on so many levels. Virtue can't be forced, and such manipulation isn't in itself virtuous.

Minus a large overhead to administrative costs.

Its not exactly a bitcoin clone, it's more of a lightcoin clone with proof of state vs proof of Work. (Uses scrypt hashing and fast block times) The tokenization of shadowcoin for zero proof transaction is a nice feature, but lack of formal governance is not. Someone controls the github at the very least. What you need for a truley decentralized code base is core code that is provably correct from the start. I think shadowcoin is getting very close to the coin that can surpass bitcoin.

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The trick is for your algorithm to be able to come to it's own assumptions. Gentetic and probabilistic techniques are already quite good at certain things http://gizmodo.com/this-amazing-image-algorithm-learns-to-spot-objects-wit-1502512344 Additionally there isn't this literal physical property of intelligence in brains or nuerons, but is in thier structure and relation to each other. Real AI is going to probabilistic and behaviour largely based on the stored intermediate results of bast input. This means on occasion the AI will do something wildly stupid or inappropriate. Goggle didn't want to be liable for this so they hand tweaked the algorithms and left them set. Plus not many people could afford a car with a supercomputer inside.

He's an idiot, knave, or fool. Any backdoor or LEO intercept ability can also potentially be exploited by other sorts of criminals as well. Strong encryption and user control of devices is vital to a prosperous and free society.

UPB can also be understood as behaviour which is to be preferred in all cases. "Is to be" is a fairly useful construction to describe moral imperative without the confusion of should, can shall, and may e.g. "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil avoided"